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their general plan can easily be adopted, thus 
carrying the river drive altogether a mile 
toward Bartram’s Garden. 
The third division for consideration would 
naturally be that between the end of this 
section covered by the Olmsted plan and 
Gray’s Ferry Bridge; but I prefer to direct 
attention first to the ease with which Bar- 
tram’s Garden could be extended northward 
along the bank of the Schuylkill between 
the railroad and the river, here over a block 
distant from each other, to Gray’s Ferry 
Road. The ground is quite open and high, 
and if purchased or condemned for park 
purposes, a road could readily be constructed 
along the river. 
Along the five-eighths ot a mile between 
Gray’s Ferry Bridge and the ground mapped 
out by the Olmsteds the greatest difficulty is 
confronted. The railroad with three or four 
tracks runs along the brink ot the Schuylkill, 
leaving no space whatever to lay out any sort 
of a street. Prot. Leslie W. Miller has sug¬ 
gested the example of London, which, indeed, 
has given a precedent for solving this problem. 
Along the north bank of the Thames a portion 
of the underground railroad had been con¬ 
structed with various outlets tor the smoke, 
and there was no room between it and the 
river for a park driveway. The similarity of 
the two problems is self-evident. London 
dug out the ground and the ugly mud banks 
on the south side of the Thames, and used 
the material to fill up the mud banks on the 
north side, building a great retaining wall, and 
so created what is now one of the most dis¬ 
tinguished features of London, the Victoria 
Embankment. The Albert and Chelsea 
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